Peter Thielbook recommendations

Peter Thiel on 7 Powers
"[The author] understands that strategy starts with invention. He can't tell you what to invent, but he can and does show what it takes for a new invention to become a valuable business."

Peter Thiel on The American Challenge
"I like the genre of past books written about the future."

Peter Thiel on The Sovereign Individual
"One of the books that tremendously influenced me when I started PayPal."

Peter Thiel on The Reasonableness of Christianity
"Said that Christ obviously had to mislead people, since if he had not done so, the authorities might have tried to kill him."

Peter Thiel on Capital in the Twenty-First Century
"Accurately describes inequality in the past and present of countries like the United States."

Peter Thiel on The Great Illusion
"I like the genre of past books written about the future."

Peter Thiel on The Master and Margarita
"The devil shows up in Stalinist Russia, [...] and gives everybody what they want, and everything goes haywire."

Peter Thiel on Paradise Lost
"The mind is its own place and of itself can make a hell of heaven, and a heaven of hell."

Peter Thiel on The New Atlantis
"I like the genre of past books written about the future."

Peter Thiel on Cryptonomicon
"The early PayPal team worked well together because we were all the same kind of nerd. We all loved science fiction: Cryptonomicon was required reading."

Peter Thiel on Dangerous
"If you don't use your freedom of speech, one day you might find that it's gone. Buy this book while it's legal."

Peter Thiel on Discourses on Livy
"Something in these pages planted itself deep into [Peter Thiel]’s mind when he first read it long ago."

Peter Thiel on Atlas Shrugged
"When I first read [Ayn Rand's books] in the late 80s, it felt pretty crazy. And in the last decades, it's in many ways felt much more correct."

Peter Thiel on Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
"We [followers of Girard], had sort of a sense that we had figured out the truth about the world in a way that nobody else did."

Peter Thiel on The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
"Peter [Thiel] would, at one point, pass me a copy of [this book], the book he had read as he’d mulled his options over."

Peter Thiel on Ego Is the Enemy
Peter Thiel quoted this book to the author.

Peter Thiel on Anna Karenina
"All happy families are alike, and all unhappy families are unhappy in their own special way."